[He'd known John would understand. It's why he's bothering to explain in the first place. A lot of people don't know what it's like to be different; some understand it happens but simply can't believe that seeing things is just as possible as telekinesis, and when he was little abilities like that weren't all over the news. Known, but not the first conclusion.]
And you don't know, not until you can manage to prove it to yourself well enough that you can ignore what anyone else says, because there's no way to prove it to them. A telepath can get in their head but how are you ever gonna prove you see dead people? You can go to a place you've never heard of in your life and tell them the name of the ghost you're talking to, all kinds of details about them, and they'll say you researched it first. That they somehow managed to pick a place you knew the history of. They're never going to believe anything they can't see.
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[He'd known John would understand. It's why he's bothering to explain in the first place. A lot of people don't know what it's like to be different; some understand it happens but simply can't believe that seeing things is just as possible as telekinesis, and when he was little abilities like that weren't all over the news. Known, but not the first conclusion.]
And you don't know, not until you can manage to prove it to yourself well enough that you can ignore what anyone else says, because there's no way to prove it to them. A telepath can get in their head but how are you ever gonna prove you see dead people? You can go to a place you've never heard of in your life and tell them the name of the ghost you're talking to, all kinds of details about them, and they'll say you researched it first. That they somehow managed to pick a place you knew the history of. They're never going to believe anything they can't see.